Saturday, February 26, 2011

SOUL MURDER

(assemblage sculpture)

They call it soul murderThe boys and girls who were sexually abusedby priestsThat’s what they callwhat happened to themSoul murder

Some of the kids say they felt likethey were having sex with Jesuslike gravity stopped for themThey were in another worldThey were making love with GodBut it didn’t feel rightnot like going to churchand praying you’d go to heavenEven when the priest made you sayyour prayers before and after.

They say that a priest would go into a classroomand pick out a child.He would bring this childto the rectory, into the bathroomor into the confessional.

A priest who’s been molesting kidsgoes to another diocesewhere he won’t be recognized.It is there, that he makes his confession.Tell me, FatherWhat is the penancefor raping a six-year old boy?What is the penancefor making him suck your sacred cock?

In the Middle Ages,the Church sold indulgencesforgiveness to sinnerswho could afford to buy their wayinto HeavenFor years, the Church has been secretlypaying out cash settlementsto families of children who were molestedby priestsin an attempt to buy their silence.

During the witch huntspriests would search women’s naked bodieslooking for the Devil’s marka mole, perhaps or a scarSomething that would prove to themthat the woman had consortedwith Satan.Tell me, FatherWhat is it you look foron children’s naked bodies?Tell me, FatherWho is the Devil?

And you, Popedescendant of the apostlesmouthpiece for Godmarionette with broken stringspresiding over the Catholic churchfrom your high palace of hypocrisy and self-serving ignoranceYou call for pastoral charitytoward victims and their predatorsYou retire priests who prey on childrento monasteries, where they will prayfor forgiveness